Joe Biden and his aviators

Updated 6:02 PM ET, Wed April 16, 2014

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The vice president joins Instagram – U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has joined the popular photo-sharing website Instagram, and the first uploaded picture shows Biden's aviator glasses with the vice president reading in the background. The caption with the photo said Biden will travel to Pennsylvania to tout a jobs plan with President Obama, and it promised more pictures of Biden's sunglasses to come. Click through the gallery to see more photos of Biden and what has become his signature eyewear.

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The vice president joins Instagram – Biden speaks during a campaign rally in Ocala, Florida, in October 2012.

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The vice president joins Instagram – Obama and Biden greet supporters on the tarmac after arriving in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in September 2012.

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The vice president joins Instagram – Biden steps down from Air Force Two at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey in November 2012.

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The vice president joins Instagram – Biden takes the stage as the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks is observed at the Pentagon in 2011.

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The vice president joins Instagram – Biden is briefed in December during his tour of the Demilitarized Zone that separates North and South Korea.

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The vice president joins Instagram – Biden waves as he walks through the Cerro Castillo palace gardens on his way to having lunch with Chilean President Michelle Bachelet in Vina del Mar, Chile, in March.

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The vice president joins Instagram – Biden visits an elementary school in North Miami Beach, Florida, in September 2011.

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The vice president joins Instagram – Biden hugs Anne Holton, wife of U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, on a tarmac in Roanoke, Virginia, in November 2012.

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The vice president joins Instagram – Biden sits with Obama during a ceremony in Arlington, Virginia, in September 2011.

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The vice president joins Instagram – Biden chats with New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi during a Yankees practice in Tampa, Florida, in March 2011.